OMG Members Quotes
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“We see membership in OMG as a privilege, enabling our thought leaders to
help define some of the most important standards applied in today’s
international software industry. OMG also provides the opportunity for us to
work with partners, competitors, customers, prospects and academics, giving us
highly valuable industry knowledge and contacts, ultimately delivering real
business benefits.”
-Hedley Apperly, VP
Product & Marketing, Atego
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“OMG provides the most efficient, effective environment for balancing the needs of technology users with the business interests of technology suppliers.”
-Bill Beckwith, President, Objective Interface Systems
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“The development and adoption process of OMG standards ensures standards’ conformance to the founding stack of OMG technologies, which in turn guarantees their integration when and where it is needed. This unique approach in building standards greatly benefits communities like System Assurance where one standard alone would not address such a complex space, while at the same time building a new set of integrated standards from ground zero would take a long time. OMG enables us to leverage existing standards and focus only on the gaps – a much faster and more cost-efficient way of achieving the established objective. OMG works well within the larger international community as the OMG’s adoption process is recognized by international standards organizations such as ISO/IEC as a trusted fast track where OMG's adoption process is the right first step to ensuring a strong foundation that helps future proof the standards work done today.” -Djenana Campara, CEO, KDM
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“Besides the travel opportunities, the OMG offers a unique way to interact with peers and experts in a way that is simply not possible within the typical enterprise or with vendors. The OMG offers access to others solving similar problems as well as industry thought leaders in a collaborative atmosphere. Users’ needs and perspectives then get factored into standards and products through both the formal and cultural processes.”
-Cory Casanave, CEO, President, Model Driven Solutions
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“OMG provides an opportunity to advance the
state of the art, learn about the technology and gain insights on industry
challenges and trends while working with a group of very knowledgeable industry
professionals. This benefits both the individual and the company he/she
represents.”
-Fred Cummins, Independent Contractor, Agile Enterprise Design and OMG rep for Cordys
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“We are very pleased with the outstanding support and rapid adoption process facilitation we have received from OMG during our recent work on migrating the VSIPL and VSIPL ++ specifications to becoming new OMG standards. We are looking forward to working with OMG to help promote and further enhance these standards. We feel OMG provides a very effective global vehicle for standards development and deployment which helps enable new business opportunities for us.”
-Pete Decher, Business Development Manager, Mentor Graphics
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“It goes without saying that our team’s work with OMG has made a significant impact on our company’s direction and presence in the industry. In many respects our Board, Chair, Co-Chair and working group involvement has enabled No Magic and the solutions we develop, to be grounded in OMG industry standards. This adherence to standards is seen as critical to success in the competitive environment we face today and tomorrow.”
-Gary Duncanson, President & CEO, No Magic, Inc.
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“BPMN 2.0 is the leading standard for process modeling. It is easy to use
and directly executable at the same time. A lot of our customers use BPMN in a
wide range of Business Process Management - projects, and they are very
successful with it. ”
--Jakob Freund, CEO, camunda services GmbH |
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“OMG’s focus on industry best practice for its
specifications (putting practice into theory?) provides two kinds of opportunity
that are especially helpful for small companies: to keep up with what accepted
best practices is, from real practitioners; [and] to participate in how it will
be consolidated, further developed and disseminated.”
–John Hall, Rule ML Initiative |
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“OMG is valuable from many different
perspectives: For the small tool vendors, OMG may provide standards that let the
small SMEs play on the same field as the big ones through interfacing through
the same technology. For the large industry, OMG may provide means to establish
the fundaments of multiple vendors of support tooling. For the academic, OMG is
a challenge because you have to defend your ideas in a larger context, and for
the industrial researcher, OMG is a vehicle for disseminating industrial results
to a wider community in a form that many companies can attach to. ”
-Dr. Øystein Haugen, Senior Researcher, SINTEF
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The core competency of OMG is about software interoperability
and Model Driven Architecture (MDA); these standards reduce the risks of vendors
lock-in as well as providing the rigors in software development lifecycle.
Architectures designed by using OMG standards have better chance to sustain the
technology changes over time.
- Jenny Huang, AT&T |
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“Over the last 20 years, OMG has extended its roots from developing standards in Middleware (CORBA) to Application Design (UML) and more recently Business Process Management (BPMN), Enterprise Architecture (UPDMTM) and Case Management. This flexibility to shape standards in key technologies and industries using its strength in modeling standards is a key reason why IBM, our partners and customers are at OMG and implementing many of these standards in our products.”
-Sridhar Iyengar, Distinguished Engineer, TJ Watson Research Center, IBM
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“OMG provides a particularly important role for its Government Members. As an open, consensus-based standards organization, it provides a neutral environment in which government officials and staff can interact with vendors largely unencumbered by the Federal Acquisition Regulations that apply during procurement. As a pre-procurement activity in an open environment, the government can freely express its needs and requirements and enjoy the feedback and advice of the vendor community. The result of this open collaboration is standards on which future products and procurements can be based that reflect the needs of government and the capabilities of industry.”
-Larry Johnson, Principal, TethersEnd Consulting
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“I must say, I for one appreciate all
that you and OMG are doing for Standards, but also for our
country and its defense. I have only compliments for OMG and
I know from my DoD Standards team at the Defense Information
Systems Agency that OMG is held in high esteem.”
-Walt Okon, Senior Architect Engineer
Architecture & Interoperability Directorate DoD Chief
Information Officer, Office of the Secretary of Defense |
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[OMG] provides an
excellent networking opportunity for me personally,
professionally, and for my company. We are plugged in to
many of the drivers and thought leaders in our industry
through OMG. With the professional and personal
relationships built over the years, we are able to
collaborate on shared interests, discuss strategies, and
stay abreast of what others are doing. It has also made me
aware of several technologies and methodologies that I would
not otherwise been. As the lead of the Tools and
Technologies group, my company has benefitted from this
insight as I bring it back and look to apply it to our own
work.
–Matt Wilson, SimVentions |
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“I view as
both mandatory and beneficial participation in the OMG for
any vendor of products and services who seeks to
profitably—or at least effectively--serve the community that
members of the OMG represent. The individuals who attend OMG
events and who contribute to OMG task forces are technology
evangelists whose opinions and statements are highly
regarded both within their own companies and throughout
their industries. We practicing engineers take note of the
companies who invest in supporting these individuals and the
OMG and we note, more critically, the companies who do not
sponsor the activities of the OMG and who decide against
having their staff participate in the OMG. As Chief
Architect at No Magic, Inc., my personal involvement in the
OMG enables me to speak directly with the users of our
products and allows me to gain critical feedback on what
challenges these users face in implementing their numerous
systems and on what innovations my competitors are offering
or are planning to offer.”
–Lonnie VanZandt, Chief Architect,
No Magic Inc. |
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Last updated on
07/12/2013
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